Re: Reducing the chunk header sizes on all memory context types

From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Yura Sokolov <y(dot)sokolov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reducing the chunk header sizes on all memory context types
Date: 2022-09-20 04:49:29
Message-ID: CAApHDvqE8OO0to5vLx=MFSgO3GVagvTemF1TmrsmqE4jEL2SWw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, 20 Sept 2022 at 13:23, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Aside from that, I don't have any ideas on how to get rid of the
> > possible additional datumCopy() from non-Var arguments to these window
> > functions. Should we just suffer it? It's quite likely that most
> > arguments to these functions are plain Vars anyway.
>
> No, we shouldn't. I'm pretty sure that we have various window
> functions that are deliberately designed to take advantage of the
> no-copy behavior, and that they have taken a significant speed
> hit from your having disabled that optimization. I don't say
> that this is enough to justify reverting the chunk header changes
> altogether ... but I'm completely not satisfied with the current
> situation in HEAD.

Maybe you've forgotten that MemoryContextContains() is broken in the
back branches or just don't think it is broken?

David

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